This book makes developmental psychological insights applicable to body-oriented psychotherapy practice. The authors systematically address the entire lifespan: starting from prenatal experiences and birth, through childhood, adolescence, sexual and gender development, to mature adulthood and the challenges of aging and mortality. Opportunities and crises in the various phases of development and maturation, embodiment processes under traumatic or deficient conditions, and potentials for human maturation and embodiment are explored from a body-oriented psychotherapy perspective. Contributions by Renate Abel, Julianne Appel-Opper, Angela von Arnim, Paula Diederichs, Werner Eberwein, Robert Fischer, Heide Gerdts, Ulfried Geuter, Thomas Haudel, Ernst Kern, Sabine Koch, Claudia Köhler, Doris Lange, Verena La.